Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
Liturgies: Latin Rite, Missale Itineratium.
Vade Mecum. Missale Itinerarium seu Misse Peculiares Valde Devote.

Nuremberg: Wolfgang Huber, 1510.

Quarto, A-G8; lacking leaf with crucifixion woodcut: D3, (Adams collation says D6+1) in this copy leaf D3 replaced with a laid leaf with manuscript prayers whose watermark matches the paper used as endleaves, circa 1602; also lacking G8, the final leaf, with full-page woodcut; this copy bears no colophon in red on the verso of G7, differing from the copy described in Adams but identical to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (the leaf undisturbed in both copies, no evidence of any alteration); small hand-colored woodcut of Christ's head with crown of thorns below the text across the bottom of D7 recto (trimmed along bottom edge with slight loss), hand-colored woodcut initial on D4; text printed in red and black, title printed in red, in gothic text throughout in one and two columns; bound in circa 1603 alum-tawed leather over wooden boards, tooled in blind compartments, ex libris Fridericus Miltenberger of France, with his inscripitions on front board, inside front board, and on title page; ex libris the Benedictines of Lambach, Austria with their stamp on first and last leaves; binding and text wormed; catches and clasps present, 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.

Adams L-1167; Proctor 11077.